Deven McGraw of CDT expresses their concern over an executive proposal to have the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) create a centralized database of health insurance claims: Under the law, the multi-state plans are to supplement state-based insurance plans, with the goal of ensuring there is true competition in all markets. OPM, which currently administers…
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RSA Panel: Thieves Thrive On Stolen Medical Data
Marcia Savage reports: Data security breaches involving third parties are on the rise, particularly in the health-care industry, a panel of security experts said Tuesday at the RSA Conference 2013. “This is an upward trend,” the panel moderator, James Christiansen, CISO at the Sands Corp., told the audience of security professionals. “If it’s not on…
Requiring drug testing as a condition of public assistance violates Fourth Amendment – Court
Hooray! FourthAmendment.com reports that drug testing as a condition of receiving public assistance in Florida violates the Fourth Amendment. Florida is not the only state that has put strings on public assistance, so it will be interesting to see what happens now in other states.
Security shortages exacerbating breaches
Mike Millard reports: The sixth Global Information Security Workforce Study, conducted by (ISC)² shows that a shortage of information security professionals is having an adverse impact on healthcare and other industries, even as vulnerabilities such as mobile devices and social media are on the rise. The (ISC)² study, conducted in partnership with Booz Allen Hamilton and Frost…
Why the delay?
Approximately three weeks ago, I added a breach incident to DataLossDB that involved the North Los Angeles County Regional Center. My summary of the incident was: Stolen laptop contained consumers’ names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, UCI number, ability to ambulate, whether they used a respirator, type of residence, and contact person The entry…
DNA Privacy Gets First U.S. Supreme Court Test in Rape Case
Greg Stohr reports: When Alonzo King was arrested for assault in 2009 after pointing a shotgun at several people, authorities had no reason to think he was also a rapist. Then officials swabbed his cheek at the Wicomico County, Maryland, booking facility and ran his DNA through a nationwide database. The check linked King to an…